Context and Passage

Context

Context noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Passage and context are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Passage" instead a noun "Context".

Nearby Words: contexture, contextual

Passage noun - A part taken from a longer work.

Usage example: the news report quoted a passage from the novel

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Context and passage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Context" instead a noun "Passage".

Nearby Words: pass, passed, passing, passageway, passaged

full	full context	full passage
exact	exact context	exact passage
similar	similar context	similar passage
normal	normal context	normal passage
Other adjectives: specific, certain, original, correct, actual, little, important, new, dramatic, further, relevant, said, earlier, biblical.

Each chapter is prefaced with a short passage from a subscription news/entertainment feed, used as a Framing Device to establish a context for the larger world that the story takes place in.

Source: Literature / Otherland
Monster opens with a passage from Revelations which puts the actions of the series it parallels in a very different context.

Source: Framing Device aka: Framing Story
The American translation has one howling error: unfamiliarity with British regional towns meant the American sub-editor changed one reference to the east-coast seaport of Hull to "Hell", meaning the passage lost all sense and context.

Source: Cultural Translation

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